Receipt mechanism



Oct. 16, 1934. H, F. SADGEBURY 1,977,016

' RECEIPT MECHANISM Filed April 6. 1932 ZSheets-Sheet l INVENTOR Oct.16, 1934. H SADGEBURY 1,977,016

RECEIPT MECHANISM Filed April 6, 1952 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 l V E N T 0 R@firmrm d i dryiyzhuy B Y Wa dqm? 7 AT ORNEY Patented Oct. 16, 1934UNITE STATES 1,977,016 RECEIPT MECHANISM Herman F, Sadgebury, Dayton,

Ohio, assignor,

by-mesne assignments, to Central United National Bank, Cleveland, Ohio,as trustee Application April 6, 1932, Serial No. 603,594

Claims. (01. 101-66) In the patent of Albert S. Wheelbarger and GroverC. Coil, 'No. 1,858,813, issued May 17, 1932, a ticket issuing machinewas shown which 7 issues a ticket on every operation of the machine. 5In some stores the merchants do not wish receipts on every operation ofthe machine but only occasionally care for such receipts and in casethey do not need the receipt they do not wish it to be issued, for ifthe unneeded receipts fallen the floor they are simply litter. Theobject of this invention is to provide a machine of the type shown inthe said application but provided with an optional receipt feature.

In the drawings: I

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a machine such as shown in the saidapplication but having my invention incorporated thereon;

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view; and

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the mechanism mounted on one ofthe printing shafts.

The gear 1 is rotated by any convenient means not shown, which gearmeshes with and drives a gear 2 secured to a Geneva gear 3 provided witha circumferential disk 4 extending for approximately 270 degrees. Thisdisk 4 holds the Geneva pinion 5 stationary until the teeth of theGeneva gear 3 pick up and actuate the Geneva pinion 5, as is well knownin the art, the object being that in spite of the fact that the Genevagear 3 and disk 4 are much larger than the Geneva pinion 5, the Genevapinion 5, the Geneva gear 3 and the disk 4 will be rotated once for eachoperation of the machine. The Geneva pinion 5 meshes with and drives apinion 6 loosely mounted on the shaft 7. The shaft 7 is provided with anelectrotype 8 which presses a ticket strip 9 into engagement with a feedroller 10 mounted on the shaft 11.

A hand lever 12 is pivoted on a stud 13 and is provided with a notch 14and a notch 15. One or the other of these notches is engaged by aretaining pawl 16 mounted on a stud 17 which pawl is pulled intoengagement with one or the other of the notches by means of a spring 18.A lever 12 is provided with an arm 19 which terminates in an overturnedlug 20 adapted, under certain conditions, to engage a notch 21 in a disk22 which is integral with a pinion 23. The disk 22 and pinion 23 arefast on the said shaft 7. The condition under which the overturned lugwill engage the notch 21 is when the lever 12 is so positioned that thepawl 16 will engage the notch 14, which might be called the oii notch,thereby holding the disk 22 and shaft 7 against any tendency to rotate.The arm 19 is provided with a slot 24 which receives a pin 25 carried byan arm 26 pivoted on a. shaft 27. The arm 261 is provided with a stud 28which carries a broad pinion 29 sufiiciently wideto engage both of thepinions 6 and 23. The slot 24 might bev called a cam slot for the handlever 12 is shifted from the position shown in Fig-1 110 a position suchthat its notch 15 will be in engagement with the pawl 16, the said notch24 will earn the pin 25 outwardly so as to bring the broad pinion 29intomesh with the pinions 6 and 23.

If the machine is now operated it is obvious that p when the looselymounted pinion 6 is rotated by means of the Geneva pinion 5 it willrotate the pinion 23 through the pinion 29 and thereby rotate the shaft7 and the electroplate 8 and feed the ticket out of the machine.

It is, therefore, thought that it is apparent 7 that when the hand lever12 is in the position shown in Fig. 1 the ticket feeding mechanism willnot be operated but if it is in a position such that the pawl 16 engagesthe notch 15 the pinion 29 will connect the pinions 6 and 23 so thatwhen the machine is operated the ticket will be issued. The only thingthat the operator need do to change from a ticket issuing machine to onewhich does not issue a ticket is simply to shift the lever 12.

In the said patent, however, the ticket is printed each time the machineis operated and it is, of course, obvious that the ticket should not beprinted unless it is going to be issued. I have, therefore, providedmeans to render inoperative the ticket printing mechanism in case theticket issuing mechanism is disabled as above described. In other words,if a ticket is going to be issued it must be printed but if it is notgoing to be issued, the ticket ought not to be printed. In order tosecure these results I have connected the hand lever 12 to a link 30 bymeans of a pin 31. The lower end of this link 30 is provided with a pin32 which is mounted on a crank arm 33 secured to a shaft 34 which isprovided with a second crank arm 35 connected to a link 36 by means of apin 37. The lower end of the link 36 is provided with a pin 38 mountedon a lever 39 pivoted on a shaft 40. This lever 39 is provided with apin 41 which extends through a slot 42 in the frame 43. When the lever12 is so positioned that the pawl 16 engages the on notch 14 the links30 and 36 are in their lowered position and the pin 41 would be at thebottom of the slot 42. If new the printing carrier 44 is oscillated bymeans of the pitman 45 connected to the Geneva gear 3 by means of awrist pin 46 the lever 47 mounted on the shaft 48 and normally movablewith the printing carrier 44 would pass above the pin 41 but if the handlever 12 is shifted so that the notch 15 is engaged by the pawl 16,which it will be remembered would cause the issuing mechanism to becomeoperative, the pin 41 would be raised to the upper end of the slot 42 sothat as the printing carrier 44 was oscillated the pin 41 would engagethe lower end of the lever 47 and hold it against oscillation therebybringing its cam surface 49 on the upper portion thereof into engagementwith the platen 50 mounted on a shaft 51 which is mounted in a slot 52in the side arms of the printing carrier thereby elevating this plateninto engagement with the printing wheels 53.

By the above described means the operator can either print and issue aticket or by simply shifting a lever he can disable both the ticketprinting and ticket issuing means.

I realize that many changes may be made in the specific form of thisinvention shown and described by way of illustration in this applicationand I, therefore, reserve the right to make such changes in the specificform of the invention as shown herein as I may find to be desirable. I,therefore, claim the invention broadly except as I may limit myself bythe appended claims.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

1. In a register, a platen, a feeding means comprising a rotatableprinting plate and platen, a lever, and means controlled by said leverto free said first mentioned platen and to lock said feeding meansagainst operation when said lever is in a predetermined position.

2. In a register, a feeding means, a pinion secured thereto, .a drivenpinion rotatably mounted on said feeding means, a lever, and a pinioncarried thereby and adapted to engage both of the pinions mounted onsaid feeding means when said lever is moved to a certain position.

3, In a register, a feeding means, a pinion secured thereto, a drivenpinion rotatably mounted on said feeding means, a lever, a pinioncarried thereby and adapted to engage both of the pinions mounted onsaid feeding means when said lever is moved to a certain position, andmeans to lock said feeding means against operation when said lever is inanother of its positions.

4. In a register, a feeding means, a pinion and a diskprovided with anotch secured to said feeding means, a pinion loosely mounted on saidfeeding means, a lever having two significant positions, a pinion and alug carried by said lever, said pinion on said lever engaging both ofthe pinions on the feeding means when the lever is in one of itspositions and said lug engaging said notch to lock said feeding meansagainst operation when the lever is in the other of its positions.

5. In a register, an oscillating printing carrier provided with slots, aplaten supporting means for said platen extending into said slots,printing characters, a lever, and means whereby when said lever is in acertain position said platen will be elevated into engagement with saidprinting char actors and when said lever is in another position saidplaten will not be elevated.

HERMAN F. SADGEBURY.

